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Prisoners Held By Commies Place Hew Auto Orders Detroit (U.R) Eight Ameri can officers held as war prison ers by the Communists in Korea were assured Tuesday they'll have little trouble buying new cars when they are freed. The eight, who placed orders by letters with General Motors corporation here, were told their names will be high on the deliv ery list in the event of a car shortage at the time of their re patriation. Rumors Circulating The letter was written Janu ary 10 and signed by 1st Lt. Robert C. Lemke, of Wabeno, Wis. It said rumors were circu lating in their camp "somewhere in North Korea" -that "automo biles are beginning to become hard to get." "A group of us got together and decided to try to get a let ter through to you requesting that you put us on your lists for new automobile purchases," the letter said. Asked To Advise Families "As most of us flo not have any idea whether our families know we are alive or not we would appreciate it if you would drop a card to our home ad dresses saying you have heard from us." The names of all eight men appeared on the lists of war prisoners released by the Com munists recently. On The Side by t:v.-Dmiing (Dorribatad by Km faster? frvrficsra. lacJ A mlirhty pain to love tt la, And lis a pain that pain to mim; Sut of all the pains the greatest palm fc. to lore, bat love in vain. at was Roger De Bussy-Rabu- tin who said: "When we can't get what we love we must love what we have.") Hardly a day passes you don't hear of a fire caused by someone smoking a cigaret in bed. What this country needs is a popular priced fireproof cigaret bolder for bed smokers. It should not be difficult to invent. Might also not be a bad idea to have a spe cial type of cigarets for smoking in bed. That is, a kind of cigaret that will go out when not puffed upon and not keep on burning Get It Right In order that clients of this de partment may be rightly inform ed I have requested our check ers-upper to keep a sharp look out for inaccuracies. As for ex ample, a weekly periodical re ports that Susan Hayward, the vivacious, vibrant and versatile cinema luminary has three Cad illacs. That's an error. She has only two Cadillacs. However, the article also states Miss Hayward is from Brooklyn. That is right. She used to live on Church ave nue in the beautiful borough across the bridge. It is also re ported Susan is a "natural red head. That is also absolutely cor rect. Our Horses & Women staff member assigned to checking on red haired women examined a lock of Miss Hay-ward's hair un der the microscope and passed her one hundred per cent as a genuine bricktop. r 3 OPEN FOR BUSINESS WILKINSON Sheet Metal Works ON MITCHELL WAY JUST OFF CENTRAL NEAR JACKSON GENERAL SHEET METAL Heating - Ventilation - Air Conditioning Gutters - Flashings - Skylights Dairy and Restaurant Work Bar Sinks and Set-Ups REPAIR WORK OUR SPECIALTY All Work Guaranteed Done By Insured Experienced Workmen FREE ESTIMATES - PHONE 2-8525 1 Among the Married There are about 160 groups of people in the world who practice polygamy. However, in practi cally all these groups it is a case of the men having more than one wife, not ef wives having extra husbands. Still, there are places where a wife can have more than one husband In Ti bet, for example, many women have more than one spov.se. A returned traveler reported meet ing a woman in Tibet who had five husbands at the same tune. The husbands did all the house work. Some Eskimo women have more than one husband. These husbands also handle all the housework. The Todas of India usually have only one wife. Still their life is not without variety as to feminine companionship. They exchange wives for brief periods, or they borrow a friend's wife for a week-end. Among the Todas, a cad is a man who will not loan his wife to a friend. Asking ' Queries from clients. Q. I say I saw Fred Astaire in the stage play. The Gay Divorcee. My brother says there never was a stage play of that title. Please en lighten the man. A. Hope you didn't make a wager with your brother because he's right. Title of the stage play was The Gay Divorce. When made into a film the title was changed to the Gay Divorcee. Q. I have offered to eat my hat if I am not right in say ing Gaston Chevrolet won the 1920 Indianapolis speedway auto race. What say you? A. You don't have to eat your hat. The man you mention was winner of the race to which you refer. Passing By "Buddy" Baer Erstwhile ring man. Now an actor. Has received wonderful notices for his per formance in Quo Vadis. In fact, some people think he practically stole the picture. I liked Buddy as a boxer. First time I saw him in a preliminary bout I wrote: "If anybody is going to floor champion Joe Louis it will be Buddy Baer." Will, sir, Buddy did floor Louis but Joe got up before the count of ten. . . . Doris Day. Charming chanteuse from Cincinnati. At the start of her career used her real name which is Doris Kappelhoff . Didn't want to change it. Wished to make her family name famous but was fi nally persuaded to switch to Doris Day. This brings to mind that extremely clever comedi enne named Elaine Stritch. As a professional name Stritch is no bargain. But Elaine refuses to change it. Ever hear of a big league ballplayer changing his name for professional purposes? Remember Lee Magee, clever in fielder for the Cincinnati Reds? His real name was Leopold Hoernschmeyer. Keeping Young Fannie Ward known as "the eternal flapper," at the age of 60 played the part of a girl of 17 on the London stage and made the portrayal believable. When asked her secret for retaining so youthful an appearance for so many years Fannie said: "Find News of 4-H CLUBS Sewing Susans The last meeting of the Apple gate Sewing Susans was held at the home of Mitzy Baysinger on March-4. Mitzy Baysinger dem onstrated how to model a dress. Five visitors were present. Paula York of Josephine county also attended. Refreshments were served by Mrs. Baysinger. Next meeting will be March 19 at Deidra Stew art's. Dona Lee Brown, Reporter. Central Point 4-H Club Central Point 4-H crop club met February 28 at the home of Harold Gebhard. Plans were completed for window displays for National 4-H Club week. Al exander Hardware store has given space in a window for that week. Junior leader Vernon Gebhard passed out 'record books for the coming year. Refreshments were served by Loren and Kenny Gebhard. Billy Williams, Reporter. In f he Day's tlevs The Grange Griffin Creek Grange Griffin Creek Grange will meet Thursday, March 13, at 8 p. m. There will be a color demonstration by Sherwin-Williams Paint company. Mark and Grant Parrott, nephews of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Slyter, will play some musical selections. Serv ing committee will be Mrs. Har ry Wilson, Harold Tolle, Jack Bierma and William Kirtley. HEC will meet March 20 for a covered cish luncheon witn Mrs. Mark Slyter, 2010 Sun set drive, with Mrs. Ralph Dil lon as co-hostess. Members are urged to bring scrap metal to the Grange hall as soon as possible. Wilsons Plan Appeal To US Supreme Court Portland (U.R) Turman and Utah Wilson, condemned to die for the slaying of JoAnn Dewey, will make a new appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court, their at torney said Tuesday. Irvin Goodman, Portland at torney who heads the Wilson's defense, has mailed a petition for a writ of certiorari or review to the high court. A similar re quest was denied last October when the court declined to take jurisdiction. Br FRANK JENKINS From Salem: - "Oregon's presidential pri mary election May 16 looms as one of the nation's KEY primar ies, with five Republican .and three Democrats entered." Tuesday, March II, 1932 MrorORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVEN I THINK it would be more ac curate to say that Oregon's presidential primary election will be one of the nation's KEY STRAW BALLOTS. So will New Hampshire's. So will all the EARLY ones. The later ones won't amount to a hill of beans. The politicians will make big medicine out of New Hamp shire's primary, because it will be the FIRST. They will make a moderate amount of political medicine out of Oregon's pri mary, because it will be among the first. But the REAL medicine will be made at the Republican and the Democratic national party conventions. It is there that the candidates will be picked. When the time comes to do the pick ing, all the presidential primary elections will amount to will be to give the politicians (who will do the job) something to yak about a husband youth lingers long est in a 'married woman. She also stated that she owed some of her youthful appearance to a recipe for cold cream given her by Gaby Deslys. This cream she made , herself from 12 ingred ients. 'The dipper or water ouzel uses its wings to aid its prog ress under water. M mi o)iMn MOST ADVANCED engine design in a generation. Gets more power from every drop of gasl TERRIFIC 160-h.p. performance ... on regular fuel! POWER STEERING lets you turn the wheel with one finger. Parking is child's play! POWER BRAKING . . . Electric Window Lifts . . . Solex Heat- Resistant Glass . . . Onflow Shock Absorbers . . . No-Shift Driving. Everything you could ask for in a new car is here! COMI SEE the new DeSoto Fire Dome Eight today! nn li 1,l6p0 (jP f;" . ... .e - ICf if . iMraol vhea ovaSaUe, ore opfcaol i HUMPHREY MOTORS 33 SOUTH RIVERSIDE PHONE 2-5203 DC SOTO-PtYMOUTH Dealers pretest IOUCHO MA1X in 'Yeit let Your life" every week aa both ledio oed Talavisiaa i . NIC aataVorfca.' PERSONALLY, I think it's high time to throw the politi cal convention system of nomin ating candidates for president onto the scrap heap, along with election of U.S. senators by state legislatures which went into the scran pile long, long ago. If we can nominate and elect sen ators by direct vote of the peo ple, we can certainly nominate presidents that way. National political party con ventions are and always have been a sort of an amalgam of a Hopi Indian snake dance and a combined camp meeting and re vival in the Deep South where emotional excitement becomes so tense that half the women in the tent get what used to be called the "bends" and the men are just as far off their rockers but don't show it quite so much. Considering all the circum stances, I'd say that over the long years we've got really bet ter candidates out of political party conventions than the sys tem entitles us to get. ET'S put it this way: J Suppose you said to yourself: I need a foreman. The Unit ed States of America has had a long and honorable career. It is now the greatest nation on earth. It has always picked its party candidates for president by the process of getting every body on a ROARING EMO TIONAL DRUNK and taking what came out of it. If it has worked in getting presidents for the country, it ought to work in getting a FOREMAN for me. So I'm gonna give the system a try.". About all I can say is that I'd hate to be stuck with the fore man you'd get out of such a pro cess of selection. CJTILL, the fact remains that the party convention system has brought us some of the world's greatest leaders. Why? It may be because our guar dian angel has sheltered us under her wings during all these long decades. But that suggests another thought: Maybe our guardian angel CAN STAND ONLY SO MUCH. Maybe the time will come when she will say: "This is the end. No longer will I guard and shel ter a people possessed of so little gumption that they insist on nominating their presidents at a hoe-down like this. I'm THROUGH!" ANYWAY, I think it's about time to discard our system of nominating party presidential candidates at a party convention and to substitute for it a nation wide presidential primary sys tem under which the candidates will actually be nominated by the votes of the people. Court Records POUCE COURT Ruth Carolyn Br own ell, violation of basic rule. $10. Arnold Carl Niedermeyer. . basic rule, $10. Anne Catherine Purucker, no stop at stop sign. $5. Robert Ediar Rose, excessive noise. $7.50. Charles James Todd, inadequate muffler, $5. Fred Wooldridge, void license, suspended. DISTRICT COURT - Robert G. Burns, bo. operator's li cense. $5. Merrill B Bliss, failure to display motor vehicle license. $8. Arthur E. lewis, failure to display PUC plates, $5. Glenn E. Cave and Everett H. Greenman. failure to stop at stop sign. $10 each. Floyd S. Stacy, failure to operate on right side of highway. $10. Bert Simmons, passing with insuf ficient clearance. $7.50. Elisha lee turra, overload, aoo.su George S. Malone, overload. $31. Grady D. Mott, no mud guards, $10. CIRCUIT COURT Estates of Harlan Lj.e noem. cm C. Tolman, Theodore J. Hoeut ana Winifred Ryan, all deceased, inven tories and appraisements. In matter of estate of Pernie John son Duncan, petition. smith, Fouyanna b. vs. iac naroui Smith, divorce complaint. Lolita Perrine. doing business as Perrine Industrial Electricians, vs. H. A. Taylor and others, complaint James R. lees vs. Southern Oregas Sugar Pine Corporation, metions. Clara E. Bunting vs. Walter B. Bunting, divorce complaint. Dead Una on CI aerified Ada: S30 pjn for following day: 10 ajn Mon day: noon Saturday for Sunday a-m. tor Sunday mjo. . , 3 1951 Studebaker Club Coupe Here is an automobile that isn't broken in yet. Has 8,000 miles, is equipped with the V-8 engine, automatic drive, radio and heater. Take advantage of the large savings on this one. S 1950 Chevrolet Styleline Deluxe 4-D00R SEDAN This is equipped with power-glide, radio and heater, custom-made seat covers. This is a local, low-mileage car. s17ll 1949 Buick Roadmaster Sedanette Dynaflow transmission, radio, heater. This is an exceptionally clean car. 1947 Chevrolet Fleetline 4-Door Sedan This is that hard-to-find body style, equipped with radio, heater. Don't fail to come in and look this over. This is the one you've been looking for. Si! 1947 Kaiser 4-Door Sedan This is a very good buy on a '47 model. Has radio, heater and lots of service left. 7ii V 1946 Plymouth 4-Door Sedan Heater, seat covers. This car is in the best of condition. 7ii 1941 Nash 4-Door Sedan Radio, heater, overdrive. The acces sories are worth this much. 1940 Packard 4-Door Sedan Heater. This also runs 1950 Ford 1-Ton Cab & Chassis Equipped with radio and heater. Has dual wheels and is hard to distinguish from a new unit. 1947 Dodge Vi Ton Panel Heater. This car has been completely reconditioned and is ready for lots and lots of service. Don't wait or you'll be too late. 7Di 9th and Bartlett T, Dmxs. Phone 2-6115
